Right now, the east coast is dangerously slick. A couple days ago, the National Weather Service predicted that the ice storm in the South be a "potentially catastrophic." And it has arrived. Atlanta has been hit. And right now, we can report that New York City is being pelted with snow, with a forecast for freezing rain in the coming hours.

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People are going to slip—try as they might to walk gingerly around, attempting to avoid flailing comic wipeouts. And so we appealed to MIT physicist Walter H.G. Levin for a better way. The following is his initial response, in full: